OT just what the world needs more guitar players

[BluesKeys]

I cannot believe someone would spend money on this kind of research. Have they not looked around? In my part of the world guitar players are like ants. You kill one and ten more take his place. And then you have to deal with GPD (guitar player disease) and heaven forbid if they think they are the front man/lead singer then you have LSD to put up with.

 

 

http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20061113/4557fbd0_3ca6_1552620061113612091899

[Ed Coury]

All that research money wasted on air guitar, when they could have spent it on developing the 19-pound weighted keyboard

[JeffLearman]

It's an easy-to-use, virtual instrument that allows real-time music making even by players without significant musical or computing skills

... if you want to call the result music ...

 

Actually, there's a technical term for the kind of music created by players without significant musical skills: "noise".

[ProfD]

A similar article showed up in a thread a few days ago when a fellow forumite thought he was on to something.

 

Unlike chess and Deep Blue, it takes more than calculated moves to make music.

 

I remain a firm believer that technology will always just be a tool when it comes to making music.

 

If there is no soul or passion involved, it will be static i.e. "noise" as Lear pointed out.

 

Listen to Nat King Cole's version of "Nature Boy". Now, tell me how a computer could ever come up with that.

[SilverDragonSoun]

Originally posted by ProfD:

A similar article showed up in a thread a few days ago when a fellow forumite thought he was on to something.

Hah, What kind of an idiot would do something like that

[ProfD]

Originally posted by Silver Dragon Sound:

Originally posted by ProfD:

A similar article showed up in a thread a few days ago when a fellow forumite thought he was on to something.

Hah, What kind of an idiot would do something like that

SDS, I couldn't remember who put that out there.

 

Nothing idiotic about it. Everybody wants to make a buck.

[Dave Horne]

If you use too much fabric softener will the guitar go flat?

 

Re music making and computers etc. - once AI has figured out how to recreate roughly the same number of neurons we possess (or even those of a guitar player), the machines will make music just as purdy as we humans. It's just a matter of time ... and there will be those here who will embrace it. (I would think first in line world be the brains behind Yamaha's Tyros technology. [grumpy old fart mode off])

[Black Tomorrow]

Dave, I'm sure it'll take awhile before a machine can replicate the genious of the masters, but to be honest, a TI-85 could create more emotion than the junk that's infecting the radio airwaves these days.